Nazi in Argentina

Re “His Love of Nazism Lives On,” March 17: I strongly object to featuring an avowed and unrepentant Nazi on the front page, as if he were a role model for good. He is a role model, but for the continuing hatred of Jews and other non-Aryan people. Little in this entire article presents the horrifying events this man’s hero engineered. Instead, we are treated to the following quote: “Today they say so many bad things about [Hitler]; I never experienced anything like that . . . I admire him. That’s the position I take, and I will take it until the day I die.”

If you want to write about Wilfred von Oven as part of the unfortunate postwar history of Argentina, place him in context and get him off the front page. Save that space for people who are role models for morality and justice.

ALICE ZYETZ

Culver City

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As a Jewish immigrant from Germany who lived in Argentina from 1937 to 1947, I feel I should come to the country’s defense. Argentina was one of the few places in the world where Jews could find refuge until the beginning of 1939. My parents and I, as well as thousands of other refugees, were able to start a new, productive life there. Most of the refugees’ descendants are still living there. I left Argentina in 1947 not because of any anti-Semitism, but in order to escape Juan Peron’s dictatorship. I will always be grateful to Argentina for taking me in.

WILLIAM D. FREMONT

Los Angeles